 | English periodicals - 1899 - 628 pages
...describes the phenomenon as "grand and awful; the whole heavens appeared as if illuminated by sky rockets which disappeared only by the light of the sun after daybreak. The meteors, which at one instant of time appeared as numerous as the stars, flew in all possible directions, except from... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 936 pages
...12, 1799] might be compared tc the blazing sheaves shot out from a firework." " The phenomenon was grand and awful ; the whole heavens appeared as if illuminated with skyrockets." November 13, 1833. " Thick with streams of rolling fire ; scarcely a space in the firmament that was... | |
 | Charles Pollard Olivier - Meteors - 1925 - 358 pages
...1 Trans. Am. Philos. Soc., 6, 26, 1804. and awful, the whole heavens appeared as if illuminated by skyrockets, which disappeared only by the light of the sun after daybreak. The meteors which appeared at any one instant as numerous as the stars, flew in all possible directions, except from... | |
 | J Roche - Science - 1990 - 418 pages
...commonly called. The phenomenon was grand and awful; the whole heaven appeared as if illuminated by sky-rockets, which disappeared only by the light of the Sun after daybreak. The 268 meteors, which at any one instant of time appeared as numerous as the stars, flew in all possible... | |
 | Mark Littmann - Nature - 1999 - 364 pages
...morning, l was called up to see the shooting of the stars (as it is vulgarly termed). The phenomenon was grand and awful: the whole heavens appeared as if illuminated with skyrockets, flying in an infinity of directions, and l was in constant expectation of some of them falling on the... | |
 | 1871 - 784 pages
...about three o'clock in the morning to see the shooting-stars, as they are called. The phenomenon was grand and awful. The whole heavens appeared as if...by the light of the sun after daybreak. The meteors appeared as numerous as the stars, and flew in all possible directions. . . . Some of them descended... | |
 | 900 pages
...AM I was called up to see the shooting of the stars (as it is commonly called.) The phenomenon was grand and awful, the whole heavens appeared as if...which disappeared only by the light of the sun after day break. The meteors, which at any one instant of time appeared as numo rous as the stars, flew in... | |
 | Great Britain - 1857 - 872 pages
...about three o'clock in the morning to see the shooting stars, as they nre called. The phenomenon was grand and awful. The whole heavens appeared as if illuminated with sky-rockets, wliieh disappeared only by the Jig'ii of the sun towards daybreak. The meteors, which at any one instant... | |
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I was called up," says Mr. Ellicou, " about 3 o'clock in the morning, to see the shooting stars, as they are called. The phenomenon was grand and awful. The whole heavens appeared as if illuminated with skyrockets, which disappeared only by the light... 
